Category: Science

The 570-megapixel Dark Energy Camera in Chile has captured an extended halo and a dust-filled disk around the hat-shaped Sombrero Galaxy.

The samurai are renowned as skilled warriors, but were any of them women?

NASA’s Space Launch System rocket carrying the Orion spacecraft with NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, commander; Victor Glover, pilot; Christina Koch, mission specialist; and CSA (Canadian

One has stripes, and one doesn’t. But do the differences between lions and tigers go deeper than that?

Timmy captured the hearts of whale lovers across the globe who rooted for a happy ending for the humpback. (Image credit: Sebastian Peters)

A new study has identified a potentially record-breaking haul of transiting exoplanets, thanks to a machine learning algorithm that analyzed the light curves of more

Yellowstone eruptions may be driven by shifts in Earth’s crust, rather than a deep well of magma, study finds.

May 2, 2026: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over

NPR’s Juana Summers talk with Mike Reid, the former chief science officer of PEPFAR, about why he resigned over concerns about America’s global health strategy.

Part of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is likely to crash into the moon this summer, a new report finds. It poses no danger, but

Live Science spoke with Tim Lenton, founding director of the Global Systems Institute at the University of Exeter, about human actions that can trigger positive

Nasdaq Chair and Chief Executive Officer Adena T. Friedman, left, and NASA’s Artemis II crew ring the closing bell of the Nasdaq market session, Thursday

Roughly 540 million years ago, toward the start of the Cambrian Period, the planet was mostly ocean, and life was both alien and vaguely familiar.

Stop and smell America’s state flowers at the U.S. Botanic Garden in Washington, D.C., open now through October 12, 2026.